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Investigation launched after grannies find identical post-war guns hidden inside old furniture 22km apart

On Wednesday an OAP reported finding a pistol inside a holster next to over 50 live bullets hidden inside a sofa. Policja.gov.pl

Cops are investigating after the two grandmas living 25 minutes apart stumbled upon the TT semi-automatic pistols hidden behind a basement wardrobe and inside an old sofa while they were doing their pre-Xmas cleaning. 

First newspapers to document Katyń massacre revealed

The 72 issues of ‘Goniec Krakowski have been described by the director of the Siberian Memorial Museum in Białystok, Wojciech Śleszynski, as ‘unique’ and ‘an important historical source.

Ten years from her death, TFN remembers the remarkable legacy of Irena Anders

Later known as “the first lady of Polish emigration”, the wife of General Anders was seen by many as “the voice of a nation”. 

The Freedom Circus: new book explores a clown’s tale of Holocaust survival

From Warsaw to Melbourne via the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa, The Freedom Circus charts a family’s extraordinary journey to freedom.

A tale of two cities: Two giant murals commemorate Poland and Czech’s 1980-89 road to freedom

Entitled “Wall of Culture”, the murals in Warsaw and Prague mark 40 years since the establishment of Solidarity, which played such a key role in the changes in the region at the end of 1980s.​

Polish diplomats barred from laying flowers in Russian city of Tver

Polish diplomats will not be allowed to lay flowers at a building that once was the local headquarters of the dreaded Soviet secret police NKVD, charge d'affaires of the Polish Embassy in Moscow Jacek Sladewski said.

On 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, TFN’s Stuart Dowell looks back at the ‘battle that saved Europe’

The battle’s importance for Poland and the rest of Europe cannot be overstated. According to British diplomat Lord Edgar Vincent d’Abernon it is 18th in the list of the most important battles in the history of the world, ahead of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Midway.

Lower house passes bill on aid for people exiled to Soviet Union

The Polish Sejm (lower house) passed on Friday a presidential draft law on granting financial benefits to Poles who were exiled or deported to the Soviet Union in the years 1939-56.

Treaty of Zgorzelec establishing Poland’s post WWII border with Germany signed 70 years ago today

Negotiations of “The Agreement Concerning the Demarcation of the Established and the Existing Polish-German State Frontier” were filled with tension with East German politicians refusing to treat the new border as a finality.

Road workers dig up remnants of downed WWII Soviet aircraft

The parts belong to an Ilyushin Il-2, a ground-attack aircraft that was one of the mainstays of the Soviet Air Force.

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An unusual choice? Maybe. A good one? Absolutely! Why Łódź is top travel destination for 2021

From a personal point of view, it’s sheer depth of contrast comes somewhere near the top: lavish wedding cake palaces that reference the might once wielded by the city’s power players; futuristic office compounds; blackened, broken tenements; abandoned, creepy warehouses; restored redbrick factories; and PRL blocks of cosmic dimension.

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Moving on down the line: how a narrow-gauge railway staved off economic death to become the heart of a community

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